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submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

Are we so sensitive now that we can't identify gender by the buttwipes they use? We need a special little text to tell us that Gordon uses the ones from the black, manly packaging and smells like bourbon? Just nerf the world I guess.

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[-] [email protected] 24 points 3 months ago
[-] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago

It's always been really funny to me how Gordon Freeman is supposed to be a turbo nerd with a PhD from MIT (and that Gabe Newell was like yeah, that's right). The amount of times that credential is useful to him is zero, because he's basically just Doom Guy or Duke Nukem.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

I'm having trouble articulating it, but there's an implication here that I appreciate. Yeah, yeah, MIT PhD, now go push the cart you loser.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

tbf Valve is also made up of turbo nerds, so it makes sense their protagonist is also a turbo nerd.

[-] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago
[-] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

The poor radiation safety on site has dried out his skin and made him look older and need glasses.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago

he's a highly trained professional

[-] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago
[-] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

I'm ten years older than the guy from full life consequences wtf

[-] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

He was an intern, thats why they put him in the mega-death-super-killer-laser room

[-] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

That's why he gets the sweaty job of pushing that one trolley.

[-] [email protected] 17 points 3 months ago

nerd 'Male' is an adjective, not a pronoun

[-] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago

That's what common core would have you believe

[-] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Gordon Freeman kind of doesn't even need to be gendered. He never says anything. Making all the chuds made by remaking the various games but renaming them Jordan Freeman and making it completely ambiguous what gender they are. (If they didn't just assume they're a man)

[-] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago

Half life has always been woke unfortunately, with POC scientists and a female lead who beats up armored tough guys. valve has been woke ever since half life 1. they don't make bangers like quiver anymore smh

[-] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

He's basically just Doomguy, a stand in for the player themself.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago

You know what that means. Player is woke 😞

[-] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago

If they have to tell you he's male then they did a poor job writing the character smdh

[-] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

Watch him be called Gordon FreeWOman in 3.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

Gina Cross was originally planned to be Gordon Freeman's spouse as well as another playable character in the original Half-Life, but this idea was cut from the final game.

Overall, that generic "gina" model was retconned in Half-Life: Decay as a standalone character alongside Colette Green and the woman who gave her likeness to the Hazard Course's Holographic Assistant.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

originally planned to be Gordon Freeman's spouse

i refuse to accept this i have been shipping Cross & Green since like 2011

[-] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

They’re just going for a scientific aesthetic. Test subject. Narratively dehumanized so the player can do the humanizing. I don’t see an unconscious or conscious political statement here

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